At 10:09 +0200 2004-05-05, Simon Montagu wrote:

Proposal to add QAMATS QATAN to the BMP of the UCS
Michael Everson & Mark Shoulson

Nice.

Ta.

> 8a. Can any of the proposed characters be considered a presentation
 form of an existing character or character sequence?
 No.

Is this overstating the case?

It's got a unique glyph representation, it's got its own name, and it has its own pronunciation, so in our judgement it is not a presentation form of QAMATS.


<flippancy>Isn't it a little strange that a "short qamats" should represented with a longer vertical than a regular qamats?</flippancy>

Them's the facts. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com



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